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Rookies SHINE, Alec Bohm sues parents, Nico Hoerner’s Cubs extension · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And now it's day two.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, wow, that's a different craft stance today, but it
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  Speaker 2: is Opening Day still for some teams. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 2: the crab.
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  Speaker 3: What do you call that, the krusty krab.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Krusty krab. Oh, it's cash because we're money season.
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  Speaker 2: It is the extension season extended into the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: This time, we're not going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Give me one minute first, you know what I want
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  Speaker 2: to point out becase we're not going to do a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Segment on it.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite part of Opening Day, Todd Father is debuts.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're a kid, you dream of being the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: You go through a crazy path. Nowadays it's a quicker
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  Speaker 2: path usually to the big leagues if you're really good,
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  Speaker 2: from the draft to the show. But Man even late
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  Speaker 2: into the night, Chase the latter, in his first regular
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  Speaker 2: season game, hit two home runs. McGonagall had four hits
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  Speaker 2: and two doubles. Carson Bench had a home run in
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  Speaker 2: a stolen base for the Mets. Who else am I missing?
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  Speaker 2: JJ Weatherholt had a home run for the Cardinals. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's like everybody we were looking forward to seeing all
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  Speaker 2: had huge games. Not everybody, but many of the big boys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it started in spring training when the
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  Speaker 4: name started coming out and you're trying to figure out, ah, well,
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  Speaker 4: this guy gonna be any good?
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  Speaker 3: Is he a suspect, is he a prospect? Is he
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  Speaker 3: a big leaguer?
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  Speaker 4: And these guys, they're more polished, They have more stuff
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  Speaker 4: they can look at to get them ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's not just raw talent anymore.
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  Speaker 4: It's guys that you know, have the film, have the
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  Speaker 4: extent of looking where my body is, two degrees right
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  Speaker 4: left center, all that kind of stuff, you know, all
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  Speaker 4: joking aside that could get them in the right places
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  Speaker 4: and put their bat path in the right better path
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  Speaker 4: on any pitch that they're looking for and squaring the
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  Speaker 4: ball up and they go four for four and McGonagall,
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's absolutely phenomenal. So yeah, pretty good star
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  Speaker 4: for these young men. And then you look like you
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  Speaker 4: look at a veteran guy and Aaron Judge, what the heck?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like all the world's coming in and
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  Speaker 4: so four strikeouts for him. So do I think this
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be the whole rest of the season. No,
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  Speaker 4: When I think these kids they have a bright future,
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  Speaker 4: of course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nerd on technicality McGonagall four for five started the day,
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  Speaker 2: three for three had a two run double.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was to start.
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  Speaker 2: Then he had the double follow up, but yes, still
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  Speaker 2: same point and Todd, you weren't on yesterday's show, so
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  Speaker 2: AJ was on. I think like a barstool show where
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  Speaker 2: one guy was like, oh, and do you think Judge
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  Speaker 2: is washed? Yeah, dude, one game, that's not really how this.
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  Speaker 2: This is baseball, not football, So we're gonna let things
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  Speaker 2: play out a little more than than one game. But Kratz,
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  Speaker 2: I actually think, for you and me talking so much
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  Speaker 2: offseason stuff, a day like yesterday proves why teams are
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  Speaker 2: so stingy with prospects.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, you look at all of them
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  Speaker 5: and you go, who's going to be the best. Who's
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  Speaker 5: going to be the one that has the best not
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  Speaker 5: just career but season this year? And to me, it's
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  Speaker 5: the one. It's the guys that are getting put in
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  Speaker 5: the lineups that are maybe hit sixth or seventh to
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  Speaker 5: start on playoff contending teams, and then if they continue
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  Speaker 5: to have the success that we saw them have on
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  Speaker 5: opening day, then you go, okay, we move them into
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  Speaker 5: a different spot. In the lineup. Like, I don't think
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  Speaker 5: Kevin McGonagle is a seven hitter, but I love that
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  Speaker 5: aj Hinch put him there. A j Hinch gets it.
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  Speaker 5: He understands how to let prospects kind of like transition
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  Speaker 5: into the big leagues. Look at the guys that he's
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  Speaker 5: helped transition in, you know, George Springer, a Carlos Corre,
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  Speaker 5: those kinds of guys that were early in their careers
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  Speaker 5: when he was managing Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: There's many, yeah, that aj Hinch saw early in their
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  Speaker 2: career and they've blossomed.
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  Speaker 1: So the Tigers win the game.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we'll go over some of what we
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  Speaker 2: saw from day one and we'll push it forward to
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  Speaker 2: day too.
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  Speaker 1: But also there's news. Let's talk Kashish, let's charge it out.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Todd Father dropping bills left and right.
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  Speaker 2: So Nico Horner signed a six year contract extension.
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  Speaker 1: He was the guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was mentioned in trade rumors this offseason,
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  Speaker 2: but it didn't sound like it was serious on the
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  Speaker 2: Cub side. And yeah, it wasn't because they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: keep him and they are keeping him on a six
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  Speaker 2: year agreement.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't received the money yet.
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  Speaker 2: He actually has a press conference and for those of
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  Speaker 2: you that are watching us right now on TV on Marquee,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go to that at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the next hour, so two o'clock eastern, one o'clock your time.
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  Speaker 2: We'll stay, of course on FT on YouTube like we
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  Speaker 2: always do. But Top Father Pekar.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong just signed an extension with his team.
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  Speaker 2: Horner is way deeper into his career, so that's why
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  Speaker 2: I think the money will end up being somewhat similar.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll end up seeing a number in the
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  Speaker 2: low to mid one hundreds, maybe one twenty five mil
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  Speaker 2: something like that for Nico Horner, which is somewhat similar
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  Speaker 2: to the guaranteed cash that PCA got, but PCA higher ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: Nico Horner has been one of the best players at
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  Speaker 2: his position in the sport for about half a decade now.
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  Speaker 2: Our sport loves variations of wins above replacement, and he's
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  Speaker 2: been like a four or five last I think if
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  Speaker 2: he went by Baseball Reference in the sixes win player and.
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  Speaker 4: Quietly, you know what I mean, you know about him,
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  Speaker 4: but what's the old Nurses Ryan Little Nico Corner and
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  Speaker 4: Horner sat in the corner in his pines and his curves.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's eating steak and kebab's. This guy has got them.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna get some cash. This guy is absolutely phenomenal. Quietly,
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  Speaker 4: those are the guys you want on your squad, the
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  Speaker 4: guys that go out there day in and day out
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  Speaker 4: and just perfect their craft. Gold Glover hits the ball, gap,
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  Speaker 4: the gap hits gop, has power, speed, He's got it all.
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  Speaker 4: And guess what nobody's really heard about this guy. Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: unless you live in the Midwest.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dude. He's a dude. He's a dude.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're the Cubs, if thinking about the Cubs
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  Speaker 4: and what they've been doing, absolutely phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: This is what you.
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  Speaker 4: Want as a fan, as a baseball fan and a
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  Speaker 4: Cubs fan, this is what they should be doing, This
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  Speaker 4: is what teams should be doing. And seeing what the
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  Speaker 4: Cubs have done, spend in the most money. Hey, kudos
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  Speaker 4: to you, Chicago. Now go out there and get a win.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be interested to see how much this
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  Speaker 5: this is for. Because he's coming off the best season
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  Speaker 5: of his career from a war standpoint, from an OPS
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  Speaker 5: plus standpoint from every aspect like he but he's also
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  Speaker 5: kind of been blossoming into this everyday player over the
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  Speaker 5: last four years. Like it's kind of been the fact
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  Speaker 5: that the guy just has always put together great at bats,
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he was able to not up his
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  Speaker 5: not up his UH walk rate a ton, but more
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  Speaker 5: lower his strikeout rate from years previous. And to me,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's something that I guess it's like an
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  Speaker 5: old adage like this guy's a ballplayer like this guy,
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  Speaker 5: And I always hate when guys say that because it's like,
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  Speaker 5: what does that mean? Like he just doesn't do anything
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  Speaker 5: super awesome, Like to me, short arms, quick to the ball, understands,
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  Speaker 5: understands the situation that he's that he's playing in. He's
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  Speaker 5: kind of like a you know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: people remember Eric Ibar. Eric Ibar was a switch hitter
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  Speaker 5: back in the day. I think, you know, that was
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  Speaker 5: more my time when I was playing. So for Nico Horner,
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  Speaker 5: is he going to have a better career? To me,
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  Speaker 5: the way he's matured at the plate and the way
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  Speaker 5: that he's been able to when he gets every day
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  Speaker 5: at bats drive the ball to different locations. He's not
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  Speaker 5: going to hit you a ton of dingers, but he's
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  Speaker 5: going to play gold glove defense. So to me, I
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  Speaker 5: think it's it's something that you see the Cubs they
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  Speaker 5: don't want him to go to free agency. Shows what
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  Speaker 5: he means to this team. But it also shows he
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  Speaker 5: likes Chicago. This is his second extension he's signed. I
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  Speaker 5: think he signed a three year piece to kind of
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  Speaker 5: avoid all his arbitration years, and now he stays for
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  Speaker 5: six more years. And I love when I see this
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  Speaker 5: kind of stuff. And I love when I see it
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  Speaker 5: because now you have Gold at Second locked up for
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  Speaker 5: six years, and you have Olden Center locked up for
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  Speaker 5: six years.
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  Speaker 2: you excited about anything in particular? Crats, I'll go to
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  Speaker 2: for tomorrow Saturday, if I'm trying to grab a seat
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  Speaker 2: the other day, we're like, when's de gram pitching? Only
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  Speaker 2: he's pitching on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: That's okay, that's fine, But to me, I'm going where
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was one of the best opening days
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  Speaker 5: because I never got to go to Cincinnati for an
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  Speaker 5: opening day Toronto. Toronto gets to play the A's, which
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  Speaker 5: is kind of a weird team to team I said
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  Speaker 5: this earlier matchup, but you get to see Dylan Cees.
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  Speaker 5: I get to see the guy that the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 5: were like, what nobody's moving in the free agency market,
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  Speaker 5: We'll just go get the best player, best pitcher that
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  Speaker 5: we think is available. Bang, he gets to go and
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  Speaker 5: he gets to pitch in Toronto for his first start
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  Speaker 5: second day of the year, after Gosman goes tonight. That
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  Speaker 5: to me, that's the marquee matchup because the A's they
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  Speaker 5: got a good lineup.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely do. They definitely do. And for me, I'm
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  Speaker 4: be in the mix when we talk about playoff teams.
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  Speaker 4: Phillies are going to be a mix of NL East champions.
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  Speaker 2: Last year his wins above replacement from Baseball Reference and
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  Speaker 2: it was a big gap between fangrafs fangrafts.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Is four point eight still an awesome number, that is.
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  Speaker 2: That is all star level wins above replacement for a player,
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  Speaker 2: but six point two is superstar and he was fourth
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  Speaker 2: among all National League position players. You can agree or
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  Speaker 2: disagree with parts of the number, and I know you
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  Speaker 2: know some people do and some people don't that watch
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  Speaker 2: and listen to this show.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a key factor in how players are
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  Speaker 1: evaluated in our league.
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  Speaker 2: So he is looked at super highly, and he was
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  Speaker 2: going to get paid more than whatever he gets here.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to get more on the free agent
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  Speaker 2: market in my mind. But you get the security here
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  Speaker 2: heading into your free agent season. Also stole twenty nine bags.
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  Speaker 2: He makes contact, third lowest strikeout rate among qualifiers last year.
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  Speaker 1: And here was the key quote that I dug up.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking for it while you guys were chatting,
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  Speaker 2: and I know you'll both like it. Craig Council at
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  Speaker 2: the winter meetings said, Nico's great at some things that
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  Speaker 2: I think other people think they're good at, and they're
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  Speaker 2: not as good at it. I'm not talking about just players,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about people. When you say show up every
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  Speaker 2: day and compete every day. Every rep is completed perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: That is who Nico is. That seems like that's easy.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody can do that. I do that, well, you don't
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  Speaker 2: do it. I would put Nico at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the list for how he does that. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a really good way to put it in and it's
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  Speaker 2: pointing to what you're talking about. Top father is he
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  Speaker 2: actually does what he preaches. And there are so many
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  Speaker 2: players in baseball that think they do that, and they
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  Speaker 2: probably do it better than almost anyone else on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: But when you get to the elite of the elite, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Council is saying, I've seen a ton of baseball and
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  Speaker 2: a ton of players. This guy is at another level
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  Speaker 2: in terms of his preparation. That means he's got the
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  Speaker 2: respect of him and all of the youngsters that are
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  Speaker 2: going to come through the Cubs organization.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent. And that's the guy you want to
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  Speaker 3: look up to.
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  Speaker 4: That's the guy you're like, you know what, I want
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  Speaker 4: to emulate my game after When I came up, there
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  Speaker 4: was a couple of guys, Brandon Phillips, Scott Rowland, like
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  Speaker 4: the way they went about their business, the way they
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  Speaker 4: play the game, and they it's just an understanding. Like
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  Speaker 4: it's weird when you come up and you see guys
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  Speaker 4: like they command respect out of you without even saying
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  Speaker 4: a word. And that's the guy you walk by, put
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  Speaker 4: your chest up, walk by, Hey, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good to see you instead of me? How I was? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: big dog, what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: It's a different way of talking to somebody, and you
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  Speaker 4: just respect that kind of person.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the Cubs got smacked in the opening game of
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  Speaker 2: this Who cares, it's one game. They lost ten four
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  Speaker 2: national sit a bunch of homers. The one thing I
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  Speaker 2: do want to point out is when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the box score for that game, and of course you
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: see that Saya Suzuki isn't starting off the season. So
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  Speaker 2: if you've been sleeping under a rock and you're a
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  Speaker 2: Cubs fan, you're like, Okay, Saya's hurt right now, what
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  Speaker 2: does the outfield look like? Well, that's where I think
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: the last piece of the puzzle here gets interesting. Last
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  Speaker 2: year we were talking about Matt Shaw is one of
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  Speaker 2: the better prospects in baseball and the guy of the
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  Speaker 2: future for the Cubs at third base. Matt Shaw started
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  Speaker 2: in right field yesterday for the Cubs. This might be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a shaky season for him because Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to learn a new position in the outfield
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  Speaker 2: now that Bregman is there for many years, Horner's at second,
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  Speaker 2: Swanson's as short, there's no room for him in the infield.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Bush, I think, is also one of the more
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  Speaker 2: underrated players in the game. Cubs have done a really
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  Speaker 2: nice job with their core. For Shaw either gets traded
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  Speaker 2: or I think more likely, he learns outfield and plays
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  Speaker 2: it well.
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  Speaker 1: They've got free.
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  Speaker 2: Agents coming up. Ian Happ is a free agent after
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  Speaker 2: this season. That doesn't mean they're necessarily going to sign him.
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  Speaker 2: Say a Suzuki is a free agent after the season.
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  Speaker 2: They traded Owen Casey, who was one of their top prospects,
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  Speaker 2: to the Mirlands for Edward Cabrera.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to give him a runout there.
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  Speaker 2: Times like this, Let's say say it takes another couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks to return, they get to see what they have
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  Speaker 2: in young Matt Shaw in the outfield.
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  Speaker 5: And I think maybe the extension, I mean, yeah, the
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  Speaker 5: extension for Nico Horner is good for Matt Shaw in
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  Speaker 5: the sense not that because he was he was a
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  Speaker 5: really good defender at third base, and I think his
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  Speaker 5: bat will continue to continue to mature. But there's always
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  Speaker 5: that Okay, well Nico is going to be gone next year,
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  Speaker 5: so maybe I'll learn second while I'm kind of learning outfield.
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  Speaker 5: I might be fluctuating between Triple A and the big leagues,
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  Speaker 5: or I'm going to be that fourth outfielder. Say it
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  Speaker 5: gets hurt, the extension comes out. Now it's almost like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: Matt Shaw, your choice is you can flounder as kind
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  Speaker 5: of that like utility infield guy who doesn't play shortstop
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  Speaker 5: in the big leagues, or you can say I'm all in,
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  Speaker 5: You're I'm athletic. I can learn to play the outfield.
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  Speaker 5: And there's not a lot of ground to pull up
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  Speaker 5: ground to cover in Wrigley Now. The wind is another
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  Speaker 5: is another is another level as we saw last night
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  Speaker 5: and in Ian Hap's dinger that wasn't a dinger, but
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: I think there's I think it's it's something that may
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: help him push all in to be an outfielder and
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: not worry about Okay, well, maybe I'll I'll get back
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: to second once Nico leaves.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were metrics last year that showed Pete ker
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Armstrong is even better than you think based on how
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: difficult the wind can get for outfielders a wrigular field.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: So he's probably not going to learn it in the day.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, Todd father, you didn't go through this exactly,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: but you had to wait your turn a little bit,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: in my mind, a little bit longer than you should have.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: But you did, and you came up and did some
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: third and eventually some first two for matchaw imagine if
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: you're him, you come up, you've been doing third, you
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: feel like you've got it right. You've you've barely had
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: a minut in the bigs. You were improved on defense
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: over time in your first season. And then they're like, oops, sorry,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: we signed Alex Bregmant. You're gonna be part of a
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: much better team, but you need to learn the swirly
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: outfield at Wrigley.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: It's a punch in the stomach for sure, especially when
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: you think like you did every when you think you
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: did everything you were supposed to do. So we saw
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: yesterday the wind was blowing out the right. It was tricky.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Anything to you was going over you, and anything over
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: you was going out of the park. I played in
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: a couple of those games, dere Wrigley Field. If you're
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: anywhere from if you're looking at second base from the
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: high camp, from the right side second base, first base,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: just understand, any pop up to center field is gonna
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: come back and you might have to catch it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you don't see those too often there.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: But when the wind is blowing that way, good luck
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: right side of the field. If you're looking from home plate.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Move over, ipey.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: There are new thieves to talk about, and it's a
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: court case, so we'll let it play out first. But
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: it does sound like there is some serious, serious conflict
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: between Alec Bohm and his parents. He filed a lawsuit,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: and of course this news breaks on opening day. Boem
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: hits an Opo three run homer. I think it was
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: three run homer for the Phillies in a win, so
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: it clearly didn't affect him on the field.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine what he's going through off the field.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But in the lawsuit, he alleges that his parents defrauded
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: him of millions of dollars, and I highly.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Encourage you to read it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It was first what Philly Inquire to report on it,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: but it talks about multiple LLC set up all kinds
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: of stuff they got him to sign, all alleged in
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the lawsuit, and then he wants real estate and they're
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: doing weird things with him. I mean, it is everything
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: in the book that you would think looks like a scam.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: So if it is true, it is horrific. And then
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: when he finally wanted to see the books that his
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: parents were keeping, its sounds like they basically got a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: lawyer right away and sentim a note like, oh, we're
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: billing you for our time over these past several years
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to do your finances, so instead of showing them the books,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: they said, pay us money. It sounds like a damn disaster.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: And again, the court case has to play out. We're
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: not putting anyone guilty yet, so I'm throwing that out there.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: But if what is alleged is true, Kratz, it is
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a nightmare.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Nightmare because you're sitting there going, okay, I gotta focus
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: and lock in on playing. And he's not just dealing
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: with this just because just broke. He's not been dealing
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: with this like ooh the last two days of spring training,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: like this is something that is clearly ongoing. It's clearly
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: something that maybe over the last few years his mind's
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: gone like that's kind of weird, that's kinda and people
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: some people will say, well, why do you have somebody
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: else working on your finances? It's not how it worked, like,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: it's not how it works for everybody, like you graduate
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: from college. I played with him in twenty nineteen. He
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: was drafted in eighteen. He was up in the big
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: league soon after that. He's been in the big league
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: for a long time. And you're a young you're a
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: young man getting a ton of money. You need to
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: focus on what's going on in the field. So you
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: know what, if your parents come to you and they say, hey,
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: we'll help you out with this, I don't know about
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: you guys, but I would trust them. I would trust
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: my parents. And that's what's tough is now he has
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: to kind of question if these allegations are true. He
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: has to question, well, who else can I trust? Because
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: when you have that much money and you're willing to
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: trust people, people take advantage of it. People take advantage
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: of of your and sometimes I think when it's parents,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: they feel like they're kind of like owed some of it. Like, Oh,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: I did a lot for you, I'm gonna go help you,
• 19:56
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• 19:58
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• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is tough, man, because I think you said
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: it best. You're gonna be second guessing everybody, and I
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: think he has a right to do that, you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: barring all these allegations. If this is all true, Imagine
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: the conversation you first have with your parents, Hey man,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: can I just see the books? What's what are all
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: the holdings? And then they lawyer up. I mean your
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: mom and dad, Laurier en up? Oh boy, the family men, holidays, birthdays,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: when he has kids. If he does, I mean, you
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: got to think about everything. They're not going to be around,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: like I don't know. Hopefully they can, they can mend
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: this back together. Money is a root of all evil guys.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: We've all been a part of it. We've all been
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: a part of it. I've lost friendships over it. You know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: it's it's very hard. It brings out the worst in people,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: and you know, you've got to always have a backup plan.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: You got to always make sure you know where your
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: money is going through. It's hard to keep up. These
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: guys are making millions and millions of dollars, but every
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: day you got to always take ten minutes out of
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: your day just to look everything up and make sure
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: everything's going well and happen to be your mom and
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: dad allegedly part of this. Oh man, this is something
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: whether you hang out with them again or not, is
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: something that's going to be Hey, how you doing. You know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: but in the back of your mind, you know you're
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: not gonna be able to trust it anymore if that's
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: the case.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And I encourage everyone to read this.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I have in the chat, and some people in the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: chat are like, damn, you're making me do homework on
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the weekend. It's a two minute article if you go fast,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and it is well worth the read. And this has
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: been going back to twenty nineteen when he kind of
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: handed the keys to his parents, who were like, we'll
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: handle it for you. But they were just throwing things
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: at him left and right that don't look like they're real.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, we need ten percent of this to open up
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: this LLC. Oh, it's just what you have to do.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: They weren't saying like, oh, we're charging you.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: They were like, Oh, it's just it's what we have
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to do to be able to set this up. Where
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the allegations and then within the article it says in
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: January is where this really blasted off. So Boehm asked
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: his parents to give him information about his money, his holdings,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: his account statements, his login information. Right, this sounds a
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: lot like a story that broke a couple of years
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: ago about Otani, where everyone's like, no, everyone knows everything
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: going on. No they don't, And I get it. This
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: is parents versus an interpreter, but still same line of story.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And in the lawsuit, instead of showing their son his
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: login information to his own accounts and what do his
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: accounts look like, they immediately grabbed a lawyer who provided
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: minimal information this is from the article, and then later
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: indicated they were going to bill Boem for all of
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the time they spent to administer his affairs at a
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: rate of fifty dollars per hour since twenty nineteen. You
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: cannot make this garbage up. I mean, the parents clearly
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: say he is, but we're going to find out what
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: happens in court.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And if you read that story.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Who this this is just this is just his holdings,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: This is just like money he's made. When stuff like
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: this happens, rarely are parents or family members going, hey,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna come and see you. You know, we'll see
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: you there. I already got my hotel. No, it's a
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: lot of like, yeah, can you give me a fly?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Can you give me tickets? Players can be taken advantage of.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: And I'm saying the parents did this. I'm just saying
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: that players can be taken advantage of. And for it
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: to be at this scale where they're holding and quote
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: helping with his accounts, that just means to me there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: more than just the monies that they are like that
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: they're moving and manipulating and allegedly taking from him because
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: it's like, you know, hey, hey, congratulations, you made this.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: You know we'll come to we'll be there. And it's like, well,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: who's paying for this? I haven't seen you guys foot
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: the bill yet. And players get taken advantage of, and
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: that can really add up. We had Spencer Arraghetti on
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: he said first year, he's from Texas, so he's playing
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: in Houston. He spent twenty grand on tickets. He's like,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: didn't even know it, million dollar watch, didn't even know it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: You know what I think of? Do you guys like
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the biopics?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: It's mostly in music where you see the manager take
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: advantage of the client. Of course this isn't in all cases,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: but the point is that this happens frequently, and I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: think for some people they look at a story like this, like, how.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Did you not know twenty nineteen Boem's a kid? You're
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: 't during the Biggs. I know you got to grow
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: up fast, but there's a lot coming at you.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: You're playing major League Baseball games every day. You think
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: your parents are going to help you out. But Elvis, Queen,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Elton John, all of those movies have a similar narrative
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: where there was somebody that was taking advantage of them.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I want to spend this forward, Codfather. This is going
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: on for Alec opening day of the season, Philly's win,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: fricking party, Weather looked good, Schwarber Appohomer, same with Boem,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Sanchez with his new money pitching. Well, how does Boem concentrate?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, clearly it didn't affect him for day one,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and it's been a thing for I guess years now.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But really coming to a head, now, can this distract you?
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Can it also be your escape for a few hours
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: where he maybe he'll play better because it's the only
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: time that he can really just have fun, be a
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: kid and do his thing for a few hours and
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: not worry about lawsuits.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's one of those being a professional.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: You go to the field, you know, maybe it's on
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: your mind, but once the lights come on and they're say,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: now batting, your mind just flips. And that's in any
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: sport really, So I think your mind can go away
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: from me a little bit, maybe on the defensive side,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: just because you're standing out there, But when you're in
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: the middle of the game, I feel like those two
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: and a half two hours and forty five minutes of
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: game time is your time to shine. And you know,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: you want to be a professional baseball player a lot
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: longer then you want to be at home. So he's
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: going to work his butt off to be great, and
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I think he's got a great opportunity for the fellies,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: and I think he's going to have a really good year.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yemi too. It's free agent year too, Kratz right, Massive Massive.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: He just never want anything off the field to effect
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: on the field. And I know stress fractures are not
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: caused because of stress, but I think stress does inhibit
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: your body from recovering. So I hope he has people
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: around him. I hope he has people that can delve
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: into him and the only reprieve is at the field.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: That would suck, you know. I hope he can get
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: this resolved and get people around him so that his
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: mental space is where he needs to be to be
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: healthy and to be on the field for one hundred
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: and sixty two games.
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  Speaker 2: Box one Streaming Now, Hey we're back, and Mike Trout says,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I'm back the quote post game, I felt like myself
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: again out there being in center and stealing bags. It
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: was a fun win. Trout had a day. They kept walking.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Them, and then when they didn't, he made them pay.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Todd Father, we've seen this was it last year of
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the year before where he got off to a banger
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: start and he was running and doing the whole deal.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not doubting that part. And I'm I mean, I'm
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: actually on the other side here where Todd Father. People
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, Trout's washed. I'm like, nah, he's just
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: injury prone and the body's breaking down when he plays.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: He's still a star.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, I agree.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: One hundred three walks, a monster home run to basically
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: win the game, to get him up one nutting in
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the seventh inning. He looks good. He's a superstar. I
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: don't care what anybody says. Yeah, he had a couple
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: of years where you know, it hurt him. It hurt
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: him a lot, knowing that what could have been he
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: was breaking all types of records. He's on track to
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: break some of the oldest records alive, you know, help
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: by Mickey Mantle and all those guys. But again, he's
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: a star. He's a stud. I need him healthy for
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: the whole year, no matter what he does. A good
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: healthy Mike Trout not only gonna help himself, it's gonna
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: help the Angels and it's gonna help baseball.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: And this is a great start for him. And if
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: he's talking.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: About how he feels right now, sky's the limit for
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: this guy getting back to being one of the top
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: five guys in the league for sure.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's not gonna sit there on opening Day
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: and go three walks in a thinger and go ooh,
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: I'm gassed. The only person that ever did that was
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Lorenzo Kane. Lorenzo Kane first opening Day, He's like, my
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: legs are tired of my feet hurt. But no, it's good.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously we got to see him out there
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: the whole year. Looked a little looked a little more spelt,
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: looked a little skinnier. I didn't I didn't read anything
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: about him losing weight. But he looks good. Maybe he
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: got that tailored, maybe got that Nike tailored fit this
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: year instead of just like the boxy one size fits
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: all jersey. But he looks good. I want to look
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: at him for one hundred and sixty two games. He'll
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: be an All Star, that's for sure.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's team won three nothing and Jose Soriano shut
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: down the Astros in that one. Well, I mean they
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: were flailing chasing knuckle curves left and right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Soriano looked really good.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: That's a classic name that basically nobody knows, and he
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: pitches like what a number two starter.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I would say, borderline one. I mean, he's their best starter.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: But I'm saying, even on a playoff team like this
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: is a guy that would start playoff games, And maybe
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: this is the year that you know, he makes even
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: more noise because even if you're on a crappy team
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: like you can win a sy Young Award. So maybe
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: he puts it together this year. I wouldn't be surprised.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: He's got the stuff to do it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know that he's necessarily got the cy
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Young finisher to the season, But to me, I think
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: his he was he was kind of off and on
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: hit and miss, and I felt like last year about
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: three quarters of the season, it just seemed like it
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: was like a smooth fluid. You know, you could count
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: on this guy every five days and he Yeah, he's
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: definitely one of those. He's a top five underrated pitcher
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: in the game because a lot of guys don't know
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: about him because he pitches every five days in Anaheim.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Next up, the late game last night that started a
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: round ten ten o'clock East Coast time, seven o'clock in Seattle.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: The Guardians beat the Mariners, and Tanner Bybee was on
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the mound to begin that game. He was not on
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: the mound for as long as he wanted to be.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: He left the game with right shoulder inflammation. Never great
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: when you see that news. Cleveland's got some pretty solid pitching,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: but it does not help when bybe leaves I mean technically,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I mean he gave them five innings, so it's not
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I mean seventy eight pitches. Maybe he would have gone
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: one more, but it was just more about the shoulder.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Never good. So for Cleveland, Todd Father, they still have
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: a nasty bullpen. They were able to hold down the
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Mariners for the most part. I think they gave up
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: one run, yep, one run After that point, he three
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: were charged.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: To Bibbey's account, they won.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: They showed some more pop than I expected because Chase
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Dallatter was a dude in his first regular season game.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: But to me, Cleveland is playing with fire this year.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: It's just they've got to have a lot of things
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: go their way. I know we say that and then
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: they still met around and end up swiping the division
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: from the Tigers. But I do think that it does
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: eventually catch up to you when you're barely touching your
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: big league roster in the offseason.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it does.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: You know, you look at Chase the Lauder, who I
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: don't know about Kratzy, I got him as the rookie
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: of the Year over there. I think, wow, I think
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: you guys caught me off guard and I can't speak.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I think they will be good.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know how great they will be, if that
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: makes any sense to you.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: They're gonna win the game.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: They're beating a Mariners team whose pitching staff has been
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: top notched for the past some odd years.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they beat a really good Gilbert I mean Logan Gilbert.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And you know.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, is this the offense
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: that's gonna bring it day in and day out. We'll
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: see Jose Ramirez with a big two out or two
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: RBI double to get them, you know, in the lead
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: for good pretty much.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: The latter had two home runs.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see, but an injury like this Ah could
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: hurt him in the long run.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, is Reys Hoskins gonna be able to
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: hit some dingers for him? Is you know, where are
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: they gonna where are they gonna get the offense from? Where?
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Where's that which is always the issue? Or the Tigers
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: going to collapse like they did last year? To me,
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: they're going to be chasing the Royals again this year.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: You know, Royals took kind of a year off last year.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: I think they're gonna be better this year. And it's
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: not gonna happen without Bibby's staying healthy, without Mesek having
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: you know, a similar year that he did last year
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: down the stretch, without big truck, Big truck. Gavin Williams
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: needs to be legit SHACONI has to take the next step,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: and I just too many things have to go right
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: for them to be a playoff team. But it's a
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: great start for them, except when Bibby goes down with shoulder.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: If it was I don't know. You never want to
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: hear any any injuries, but shoulder inflammation you just you
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: hate to hear it for a guy, especially for a
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: guy who is locked in to be a guardian for
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: I think till twenty thirty. I think he's his extension
• 35:13
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• 35:16
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• 35:19
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• 35:22
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  Speaker 2: If there's a problem, this would be the year where
• 36:48
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• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And there's more to the story. You got to look
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: at peripheral numbers and all that. So the IRA wasn't
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  Speaker 2: as shiny last year as it was the year before
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  Speaker 2: or even the first two years really of his career,
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  Speaker 2: more debut that I did not mention towards the top,
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  Speaker 2: just because I mean, unless I miss something, he didn't
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: do something crazy. Justin Crawford makes his debut yesterday for
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: the Phillies, and this was him pregame doing what he
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: apparently does before just about every game, gets to the park,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: takes a walk, takes it all in, and of course
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: does it without any socks or shoes on, no cleats,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: just grounding. So this was Sam Jellinick tweeting. Fun fact,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: it's not just a one off stroll for his debut.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: He did this every day in Lehigh Valley where he
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: played there, typically right when he arrived to the park,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: like clockwork, headphones, barefoot, warn't in tracking back, very meticulous
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: with his routine.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Did you do that Todd grounding? It's called grounding yourself.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: I remember Noah Cindergard used to do that in Colorado.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: I guess because the high elevations, and I don't know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: They say it's really good for you. So yeah, man, listen,
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: if you got a routine, stick with it. I don't
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: care if.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: You're the young buck or you're the old veteran.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: That's what he wants to do to get going, keeps
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: getting knocks and helping his team win.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I might jump in and do it with him too.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: I would do it, get it not. I mean, it's
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: it's a thing like I love that a rookie feels
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: comfortable enough in the clubhouse to be able to do that. Now,
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: it's nothing as crazy as like what Tristan Cassis was doing.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: And sometimes that kind of stuff borders on the line
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: of distraction. But routines, routines are so important. I couldn't
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: imagine going to your big league, first big league game
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: and having to play a different position than you played
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: in the minor leagues because you don't have a routine.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: And so his routine was he comes to the ballpark,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: he does grounding, or he walks around on that nice
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: green painted grass because I'm up here in Philly and
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: there you no green grass right now, because that John's
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: been frozen under some snow for the whole year. But
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: he's walking around on He's walking around on it just
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: like he did in Lee High. So then his day
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: starts just like it did in Lee High. Now he
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: goes out and he's facing a pitcher on the mound
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: that's gonna throw a baseball over the plate, just like
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: he did in Lee High. If you make it bigger
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: than it is, if you make it bigger and you're like,
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: oh my gosh, we're facing Jacob de Grom in the
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: second game, we faced Nathan e Valdi. That dude's got
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: unbelievable stuff. You're cooked. You're cooked because you're building it
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: up to be more than it really is.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: The grounds crew anywhere in baseball is exceptional. They're the
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: best in the world. So you get to enjoy that.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: On the grass, I like it. You get some of
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: the freshest, most perfect manicured grass, and you get to
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: walk on it with your bare feet.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I would do that every day.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: The grass is tremendous. I loved big lea grass. You
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: laying it, you rub your hand across it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: You know what you're gonna say, how do you walk
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: across the warning track with bare feet?
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I'd be getting them stones I'd be like, oh ah,
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: and then you get to the grass and you're wiping,
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: you're wiping the dirt off, and then you're like, I
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: gotta get off the grass back into it. Maybe he's
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: got his sandals across the track, parks his sandals on
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: the grass, and then we go to business.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: You know one field that you wouldn't do it on
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: if you can take your guess anybody.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: I can't. I can't think of it.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Tampa ta.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: On turt I wouldn't hate I won't hate it. They
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: got new turf this year too, so it's it's fluffy
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: like it's fluffy like Scott's hair, that new turf. It's
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: not Maden down fluffy.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I have a walk on there.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: I would welcome you here.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: A couple things before we get to Pap while we
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: wait for him to call us from games yesterday, just
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: to finish up recapping the miz shut down the White Sox.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: AJ was here with me yesterday. We were watching that
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: game fourteen to two. The Brewers look good. The White
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Sox obviously are not going to be great, but there
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: were higher expectations for them.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: It is one game Shane Smith did not pitched well.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: That was my big thing Todd Father, was you know,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: there's a lot that you can overreact to in the
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: first game of the season, but I did want to
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: see Miz control swing and miss the whole deal. Five innings,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: a run, eleven strikeouts against an offense that was pretty
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: good the last few months of the year the White
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Sox last year, and Murakami eventually got a home or
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: not off Miz but later in the game in the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: ninth that was a bomb. But if the mizz can
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: pitch like that, that's what the Brewers need, right They
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: lost Freddy. Hopefully Woodroff stays healthy this season. Who did there, well,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Cheerio's hurt. That's on the position player side. But you
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: need a guy like this, who could be one of
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: the top arms in the leaked to put consistency together
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: in his first full season here coming up and all
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, it changes the narrative for the Brewers
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: and actually doesn't change the narrative. It would put them
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: in the same place where they always are, which is
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: in the playoff mix.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Krasty eleven k three walks gave up.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: When you saw the game, they gave up the first
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: inning home the first at bat Homer, and I was like, oh, no,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: here we go, that's a miss little left center. And
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: then got the next strikeout, next strikeout, and it kind
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: of simmered down after that. So you know, solo home
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: runs aren't going to beat you, but the first batter
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: giving it up, you're like, oh, man, what a start
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: to the year. But he came into his own and
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: threw really really well. What a presence, What a presence
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: him on the mound, man, Just the height, the length
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: when he finishes, he's like forty five feet from home plate.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: So if this is where he's going, this is where
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: he has to be really really good things for Milwaukee.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I don't hate their rotation. I think
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: their rotation can do a lot of great things. When
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: you talk about Big WU, you talk about sprot you
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: talk about what could Kyle Harrison do. If there's a
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: place that's not turned guy's careers around but really gotten
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: them closer to their ceiling, it's Milwaukee. But also you've
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: sat there and you've had the last few years. You've
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: had Big WU, You've had freddie p, you've had Corbin Burns,
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: Guys that had high ceilings, But had they been somewhere else,
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: they would have done the same thing. To me, it's
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: about health for this team. If you look at the
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: fact that you know Roberts on the DL, Logan Henderson's
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: on the d L, the fact that iol I'm sorry il,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: the fact that DL Hall a guy that they had
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: expected when he came over in the Corbyn Burns trade
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: to kind of be one of those reclamation projects. Well
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: now he's in the bullpen currently. Could he be a
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: starter again? He needs to stay healthy. They need to
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: stay healthy for them to do what they've done. But
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: then again, I sit there and I go, they've had
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: injuries every year, they've lost, they've lost aces, they've lost
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: closers or gotten rid of them, not lost them, gotten
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: rid of them, And all of a sudden, there they
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: are in the playoffs again. So what it is that
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: the Brewers do? They just figure out how to win.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: But is this bad because they won fourteen to two
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: on opening Day and they got molly wopped last year
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: on opening day in the whole opening series by the
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: illegal torpedo bats? So is this the opposite reaction? We'll
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: wait and see.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: One thing.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: For me here, we always do the happy retirement. We
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: got one right before the show started, Jason Hayward's calling it.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: So congrats to Jason Hayward. Successful career, World Series ring,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: a bunch of money, very well respected in the game.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Cheers to you.
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: Never heard a bad word about the guy. And for
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: him to be able to have a ring, Yeah, the
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: money's awesome too, But he was going to make a
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: lot of money no matter what to be able to
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: get the ring, and the way people talk about him,
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: it's a guy I wish I had as a teammate.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember him, Yeah, remember him hitting that home
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: run in Atlanta, Remember his first first time first It was.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: So cool man.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: So congratulations man, go out and get some warm weather
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: and enjoyed life.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sixteen seasons in the Big Oh. When he first
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: came up, we already knew that he was a super
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: athlete and he was a great defender, and so then
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: we were like the bat. There was a lot of
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: variants throughout his career, right, and he was always tweaking
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: and trying to figure out what would get his swing
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: to the right place. But even through all of that,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: he was so good defensively that he always had a
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: spot that was the thing.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: They both came up around the same time. I think
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: it was very close, Freddy Freeman Jason Hayward, and they
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: were like, one guy is this type of player? Another
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: guy is this type of player? And people were like,
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, Jason Hayward ridiculous. He runs
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: like a deer in the outfield. Freddy Freeman's a first baseman.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: Who's going to have the better career? I remember those
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: discussions and they both broke into the scene popping. Freddie
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: Freeman had some big dingers against Roy Holiday, so it
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: was cool to see now where the careers are.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Yep, Freddy's still going, probably for several more years. He
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: wants to all right, enjoy the weekend, the games crats
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: hats on the way out.
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: Netherlands. The WBC hands Netherlands. It's actually a really nice hat.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: I'm a rocklers John.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: All weekend Boom Dutch, see everyone enjoy the games.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Happy real games Weekend